Maine State Police say they'll be using unmarked cruisers, aircraft and extra troopers to enforce traffic laws for the Fourth of July holiday week.

The extra effort to crackdown on aggressive and impaired drivers begins Friday and continues through next week.

Col. Robert Williams, chief of the state police, has also ordered a summer-long crackdown on motorists who are texting or not using seat belts. Williams says July and August are the busiest, and usually the deadliest, months on Maine roads.

"We literally spend hundreds of hours a month chasing distracted drivers," Col. Williams says. "People will call in and say, I'm following a car that's drifting across over the center line, when we get them stopped, there's no reason for it other than they were doing something other than driving, those hundreds of hours, we could be doing something else."

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Col. Williams adds that although talking on a cellphone while driving isn't against the law, however, if it distracts you from driving, you could get stopped.

In another initiative, state police and 50 local police and sheriff's departments are working in a coordinated effort through Labor Day to crack down on drunken drivers. The agencies are using $250,000 in federal funding to pay for additional patrols this summer.